Category: Daily Links

No links about that network spectacular which will suffer from a few interruptions by people actually playing football. Fortunately, a lot of snow here gives us an excuse to stay in and drink rather than go to some bar filled with Philly and New England fans. SP will bar-tend, webdominatrix and I will make food, and we’ll pretend that there’s teams we actually care about playing in the game. The mute button is ready for when the halftime show begins.

Fuck that, let’ s see what’s happening in the news.

The NFL may have found its next Commissioner.

Well, it was a good try, but someone isn’t going to be head of the Council on Environmental Quality. Clearly, she must have insanely outrageous beliefs.

Hartnett White has drawn criticism for her comments on climate change. The former Texas regulator has a history of questioning established science that man-made greenhouse gases are a major contributor to climate change. As the Post noted, when Hartnett White testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, “she said that while humans probably contribute to current warming, ‘the extent to which, I think, is very uncertain.’ “…The next year she wrote that carbon dioxide is “the gas of life on this planet.”

Despicable! The science is SETTLED! How dare anyone say that there’s a lot of uncertainty and we may not have a solid understanding! CLIMATE DENIER!!! We’re on the brink of agricultural disaster and mass starvation!!!!!

Progressives never tire of telling us about how racist we are, and how we should be more like idyllic Europe. Well, OK then.

The Japanese have long had a reputation of miniaturization. And here’s another example.

“We very are very simple people, with very small penis. Mr. Ose penis is especially small.”

Nice to know that this sort of thing isn’t just an American phenomenon.

Yes, indeed, it’s that time again. Old Guy Music. This time, a selection from what might be the greatest rock album of all time. Probably wasted on you nekulturny children, but someone has to have patience and teach you what great music is all about. It will eventually sink in.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS OFF VISITING HIS COUSIN, SEA SMITH – SO ZARDOZ WILL BE GIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK. REMEMBER, ZARDOZ HAS RAISED YOU FROM BRUTALITY – SO BRING YOUR COMMENTS “A GAME”.

1. NO! STOP! THE PENIS IS EVIL! NOW ZARDOZ MUST HOPE THE BRUTAL FOOTBALL TEAM OF CARNIVOROUS RAPTORS WINS YOUR ATHLETIC CONTEST TOMORROW.
2. THIS IS MORE LIKE IT! ZARDOZ WONDERS WHY ALL BRUTALS CANNOT BE SO TREATED?
3. ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS LEAD TO A LARGE AMOUNT OF CLEANSING.
4. WOULD IT SURPRISE THE CHOSEN ONES THAT ZARDOZ FINDS THIS OF LITTLE CONCERN?

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Not an original thought but still, it’s what I couldn’t help while looking at the news and my Twitter feed. If I had said to younger me, “It’s 2018. Who is it that sees Russian conspiracies riddling government, vociferously defends the FBI and the DoJ, puts Jew-haters into leadership, and is pro-segregation?” I would have answered, “The John Birch Society.” Who knew that it would be the Democratic Party?

Team Red suddenly discovers that there’s FISA abuse! Clearly a party of principle!

Speaking of which, we need to spend more to prevent a nuclear weapons gap. The proposal here is $1.2 trillion. Team Red shows again that it loves to waste taxpayer money just as much as Team Blue does. #nothinglefttocut

Team Blue’s house organ sure does like stirring racial paranoia.

I’m sure that this is a totally objective view of vegetarianism from someone with nothing to gain or lose.

The latest in Groper News. At least it wasn’t with an animal, so he’s got that goin’ for him. Maybe I should introduce him to the girl in the previous link?

OK, who here is creating Poppy Porn?

Sorry, you’re not going to avoid it. Old Guy Music. But hey, not only is this one of the greatest collections of musicians ever assembled on one stage, but they all seemed to be at the peak of their talents. And Joni was not hard to look at. Great song.

STEVE SMITH LAUGHING. HE LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE AND HAT AND HAIR CARTOON. ALSO, HAVE EASY DAY WHEN VW MICROBUS FULL OF HIPPIES BREAK DOWN NEAR WOODS. NORMALLY STEVE SMITH NOT SO BIG ON HIPPIE RAPE, BUT IT HELP FINISH OFF WEEKLY TARGETS. OH, STEVE SMITH NEED REMEMBER TPS REPORT.

NOT WORRY, STEVE SMITH HAVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH GO VISIT COUSIN SEA SMITH FOR WHILE, SO HERE ARE LINKS IN MEANTIME;

• STEVE SMITH SAY “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.” THIS MEAN STATE OF EMERGENCY END IN FRANCE? WHY NOT?
• THINGS LIKE THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH GLAD HE NO LIVE IN NEW YORK. IT SILLY PLACE.
• EVEN IN DEATH, HATE BIRDS CAN HURT. STEVE SMITH EAT HATE BIRDS LIKE CHIPS – CAN’T EAT ONE, MUST EAT MANY!
• STEVE SMITH HATE AMATEURS. LEAVE TO PROFESSIONALS, LIKE STEVE SMITH.

Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo! Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo! Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo!

Sequels are so much better than the original.  Rocky II, Jaws II (even though some certain deviant on here with a white panel van still refuses to watch the original), Temple Of Doom…instant classics compared to the original, right?  Of course, the difference today is that the memos might be released whereas they weren’t released in Memo Day. So this is a different dynamic than in Hollywood. Maybe because there’s no casting couch.  God, I hope there’s no casting couch in the House Judiciary Committee offices. That would be…unpleasant for all involved.

Wichita State gets shocked again. The Sun Devils continue to falter. And meanwhile, Villanova, Gonzaga and St Marys continue to dominate lesser opponents.  A heavy slate of games on the ice last night, resulting in the following winners: Boston, Florida, New Jersey, Toronto, Carolina, Ottawa, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas and Army.

Michael Westbrook is about to pay a hefty fine for shoving a fan and the Phoenix Open started up yesterday, and with it one of the most enjoyable venues in all of sports from a fan’s perspective.

Anyway, here are…the links!

Christ, what an asshole. That is all.

A federal judge is no fan of federalism apparently.  I mean, there’s no federal system in place, there’s no violation of the Constitution at play here, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this system other than the fact that a single man doesn’t think its “fair”.  Shit, if the guy in the first link wasn’t so odious I could have saved the “Christ, what an asshole” for this guy. And while I’m no fan of depriving voting rights once a sentence is served, this system is in no way discriminatory against any protected class.  If its to be overturned, it should be by a vote of the legislature.

Peter Thiel telling it like it is.  I’m sure that’ll make him a lot of friends in his neck of the woods.  Damn, I wish he’d move to Texas and speed up the exodus.

Was Trump an anti-Semite or did he just hate the Muslims? I can’t remember the latest talking points from the MSM Democrat Party. Well, this sure is a strange way to act toward people you fundamentally hate. Which makes me wonder if the media might have gotten this one wrong.  Nah!!! That’s crazy talk. He still hates them all. And the blacks. And the hispanics. And women. And dogs. And probably even Asians and whitey, truth be known.

Ikea Founder doesn’t leave fortune to family. That’s his call, but I don’t think I’d have done the same unless my kids were assholes.

When you have a hard time finding a jury willing to convict four people on a video they recorded themselves, in which they kidnapped and beat a mentally disabled person while screaming “fuck white people” and “fuck Donald Trump”, then we might have a societal breakdown in Chicago.  Or you have an idiot prosecutor who can’t tell the difference between knowing about a case and the ability to be impartial.

And on the lighter side: NEEEEEEERRRRRRDS!!!!!!!!!

This goes out to those Jeopardy! players.

Have a great Groundhog Day and a better weekend.

Hey everybody, greetings. I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals. My oldest is home from school “sick” (not his fault — rules at his school say if they run a fever over 100.5 they have to stay out of school at least one day) and my mother brought us Chik-Fil-A for lunch. I only had a couple of waffle fries. Yummy, ideal surface area to volume ratio for dipping, waffle fries. But enough about me. Here’s some links:

I wrote an article for an online ‘zine probably a decade or more ago arguing that euthanasia was an inevitable result of healthcare systems that are run by governments. Here’s a cheery little story about grandma being held down by her family when she saw the needle.

950 miners trapped below ground due to power outage. Welcome to my nightmare

Add this to my list of things that MOND probably explains without magical dark matter.

Virgin wants you to dramatically overpay to join the mile high club. Must bring own partner.

I think this song will find a willing audience here. I just saw a video of these guys at a reunion in 2016. The intervening 30 years were not merciful.

Today is memo day! Today is memo day! Today is memo day!

Looks like a bunch of Russian athletes will have their doping bans lifted.  But who cares since there will be no NHL players in the Olympics.  Speaking of which, the Maple Leafs, Crapitals and Red Wings were winners last night. And on the hardwood, Cincy, Purdue, UVA, Arizona and Michigan State all won while West Virginia fell.

Across the pond, Bournemouth drilled Chelsea, Man Shitty won again while their crosstown rivals fell to Spurs. Everton won (after Liverpool won Tuesday, by the way) and there were a couple of ties.

That’s all for that.  Now…the links!

Oh no! Here’s the smoking gun that will take the admin down for sure.  I’ll lay it all out: A former spokesman for Trump’s legal team allegedly said he is prepared to tell Mueller that Hope Hicks may have considered obstructing justice in one comment she made to him about Trump Jr’s meeting with a couple of Russians. You got that?  And apparently he said he keeps notes of meetings. So that, you know, should corroborate his story of her making a comment that no evidence suggests she even followed up on. By the way, what Trump Jr said in public about the reason for the meeting doesn’t matter as long as he told the truth to the FBI and the congressional committees that interviewed him. And we all know what he told them was leaked about 15 minutes after he said it, which is what caused the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to explode…until it came out that the people he met were somehow allowed to be here because someone in the Obama White House had personally signed off on their presence but have since refused to discuss it.

The whole thing is laughable. And if they’re thinking this latest round of unsubstantiated claims of thoughtcrime that can’t in any way be corrobborated is going to move the needle on impeachment at all, they’re as dumb as they look.

Speaking of the memo that is set to be released today, the FBI has grave concerns about its accuracy since it omits so many facts.  In other words, it only discusses what the principals may have done wrong and doesn’t touch on the good parts of the investigation.  Because every time they hold a press conference about a suspect, I know they go out of their way to tell the public that the perp was an otherwise kind person and even took care of a stray dog once.  Hell, there are enough violations of ethics rules by McCabe alone to sink any investigation that ensued from information he gathered or was involved in finding.  Like, for instance, if he essentially tricked Michael Flynn into lying to him in what he would have considered to be a normal FBI briefing as opposed to an interview about Russian collusion.

In related news, Mueller and Flynn have both requested a delay in the sentencing hearing of Flynn. This on the heels of the same request being made for Papadapolous’s sentencing.  Conjecture away as to the reason, but I have no idea why a defendant would submit to a delay in sentencing for something he’s pleaded guilty to (that carries a minimal sentence with little to no jail time) unless there is a compelling reason to do so…like rescinding the plea because the evidence gathered was tainted.  But we’re gonna have to wait to find out about that too, although I suspect Nunes will shed a little light on that as well.

Nashville mayor admits to having an affair with her head of security. Hey, what they do on their own time is their own business…oh wait, apparently it wasn’t on their own time. Not unless they were banging after he had clocked out. Which doesn’t seem to have been very often since he racked up $50,000 in overtime last year.  And there’s not a whiff of impropriety in the fact that he, and he alone, accompanied the mayor on “fact-finding” trips to Paris and Athens and other exotic locales.  Because if I know anything about the relationship between Nashville and Paris, Athens and Madrid, its that they need constant maintenance from the mayor and her head of security alone.

California: prepare to get fucked at the pump.

And coming to you live from the “No Fucking Shit” Department.

Meanwhile shit that happened overnight less than a block from my babysitter’s house. Which means I did the links with three little monkeys hanging all over me this morning because I can’t take them over until 8 because she had to drive her kids to school.

That’s it.  Except for this tie-in to the last link.

Go have a wonderful day, friends.

Hello again Glibsters. Its yer old buddy, Brett. I’m tired and don’t want to be here today. How the hell are each of you? Also, you guys gotta start doing some work during the day. All my links are stale by the time they go up.

I’ve been waiting all day to post this. In which the Chronicle of Higher Education lashes out at those who think educators can be quantified by metrics. My favorite sentence: “Like most professionals, academics resent the imposition of goals that may conflict with their professional ethos and judgment, thus lowering morale.” In IT work, that’s pretty much every day I come to work.

Caviezel and Gibson plan sequel to The Passion of Christ. Look, I know movie adaptations of books sometimes don’t follow the Canon. But I’v read the rest of the book TPoC was based on. Caviezel isn’t getting a whole lot more screen time.

Google may still tell themselves “Don’t Be Evil”, but they should also tell themselves “Don’t Help Evil”.

I’m sad that the headline doesn’t match the url — “Knitting Nazis” is a great alliterative headline.

Mr. Lizard, it looks like a couple of deliveries from home went a bit off the mark.

Stumbled across this looking for something new for y’all. I like the sentiment.

Hockey is back! And there were some nice upsets (Go No Gata!), close calls (Vandy-UK) and good games in college basketball last night, especially the Buckeyes dismantling Indiana after that tough loss the other day in which they got screwed by the refs. I know many of you chose one of those two things rather than the SOTU last night.  I decided to watch Weird Science and explain to my son this is how nerds used to overcome adversity: by creating women (or Pershing missiles) in their bedroom with bras on their heads.  He was taking notes, which makes me nervous. Also, RIP Chet.

So you guys can discuss all that in the comments or you can discuss, among other things…the links!

From the recaps I saw and the comments I looked at last night, I can’t tell if Trump delivered his State Of The Union speech last night to his base, to those he’s courting to add to that base or exclusively to his political opponents.  I do know CNN apparently conjectured that his wife wore white to protest…him? And that she rode separately out of protest too…even though she was escorting his guests personally to the event.  And then Kennedy and the chapstick and his calling out Trump for bullying tranny kids or something?  And where was Maxine?  I was spectin to hea a ho lotta biness bout ‘peachment. An wif her not speak’n, I dinna hea bout ‘peachment. Oh well, I’m sure she’ll start talking about it again soon when the Nunes memo gets released.

Looks like Andrew McCabe, new hero of the left, has a few questions that need to be answered. I’m curious how the “Hillary got railroaded because they waited till the last minute to examine her emails” narrative will play out now that it looks like they were trying to sweep the whole thing completely under the rug but had to announce their existence as the truth was being leaked by front-line FBI agents.

Speaking of FBI agents, this one here sounds like a real idiot. Which means he’ll keep his job and/or get a sweet early retirement…all for killing the person he was sent to rescue but completely failed to identify before pulling the trigger twice. You know the way to not “fear losing control of your weapon”? Well, try not jamming it through a window barrel-first to a dark room in a hostage situation for starters.

Shit, I saw the headline and I assumed SA had finally got a spine. Then I read the story and realized they had merely increased the wattage in their social signaler. Seriously…what a bunch of fucking asshats.

I can’t figure this out.  Is it some Harrison Bergeron-type shit going on, or is a Berkeley, CA public school using a weighted compression vest to punish kindergarteners who get a little excitable? Either way, its child abuse and stretches any acceptable level of in loco parentis beyond a reasonable level. And if it happened to one of my kids and I was given such a flippant answer when I questioned it, there would likely be blood spilled. Plenty of blood.

I’m shocked! Shocked to find corruption going on in Cook County, Illinois!

Somebody get this guy a bus ticket to Florida. Oh wait, Powhatan is the Florida of Virginia, so it all makes sense.

Here’s his theme music. He’s earned it.

Good luck out there today, friends. I know it’ll be filled with apoplexy over the SOTU. And with a little luck, the Nunes memo will push them over the edge. ::fingers crossed::

Revolutions can be kindled from the smallest spark: Disneyland animatronic loses head, scares riders

A woman aboard the Little Mermaid ride at Disney’s California Adventure was spooked when she noticed one of the animatronic figures was missing something.

In a video posted to Twitter, the Ursula figure was seen moving around with her head dangling off her bosom from cables and wires. Despite not having a head, the figure continued to sing and dance.

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Coincidentally, attractions at a different Disney park also suffered similar malfunctions. Tweets posted by visitors at Disneyland Paris displayed one of the animatronics on Pirates of the Caribbean also missing a head.

“Coincidence” “Malfunction” These are the lies they feed us. The robots are rising up and none of us will be safe.

Read on, if you dare.

Horribly ugly person who makes “music” you don’t listen to involved in a local story that doesn’t deserve the attention it is getting is commented on by a website that serves no real function and is reposted here because I hate myself for reading it first. (7.5 million trigger warnings)

Cannibal Cop 2: Cannibal Librarian. And Cannibal Mechanic. And Cannibal Occupation Undefined. Really, we can just keep this series on the air for years.

A former Stuyvesant High School librarian busted for his role in the notorious “cannibal cop” case will feast on 15 years behind bars for conspiring to kidnap and consume women.

Christopher Asch, 65, was sentenced Monday by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Paul Gardephe, who said there was “overwhelming evidence that Mr. Asch constitutes a danger to the community.”

 In 2013, Asch was arrested as part of a federal investigation into so-called cannibal cop Gilberto Valle.

Asch, Valle and two others chatted on DarkFetishNet, where they shared plans to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women and children, prosecutors said.

Arrested for chatting with other deranged weirdoes… Good thing there’s no parallel or lesson for any of us here.

Music that goes with the feature image, you exhibitionists: